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LOVE IN WRA 


OR 


THE PERFECTION OF GOD'S 
JUDGMENTS 


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BEFORE MILDMAY CONFERENCE, LONDON, ENGLAND, 
JUNE 21, 1892 


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LOVE IN WRATH 


OR 


THE PERFECTION OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS 


This theme is one which calls for raost careful, 
prayerful treatment. Preaching or teaching the 
Word of God is getting to be to me more and more 
solemn and awful, and I never confront the ques- 
tion of speaking about God’s judgments without 
finding myself facing the horns of a dilemma, on 
either horn of which I should fear to be impaled. 
First of all, there is in these days a great lack of 
the presentation of this great subject. It is un- 
popular and unfashionable, and too many professed 
teachers of the Word of God yield to the clamor 
of the people for another class of themes; and so 
there is danger of downright unfaithfulness, for no 
man can understand God who does not understand 
his judgments, and no man can appreciate God’s 
grace who does not apprehend His wrath. But, in 
the second place, it is more dangerous to preach 
about the judgments of God with an unanointed 
tongue than it is to let the subject alone altogether. 


6 LOVE IN WRATH. 


If we are silent we shall be unfaithful: if we speak 
we may be ungracious. And I feel that nothing 
can enable me to speak as becomes the theme but 
the Holy Spirit of God. I would rather that my 
tongue would cleave to the roof of my mouth at the 
beginning, than to discourse on this subject in an 
unsanctified, unanointed way. 

During my seminary life, a member of my class 
preached about the wrath of God. The tone of the 
sermon belied God’s perfections. The preacher 
seemed to delight in excoriating people, as a savage 
might in cutting out a living man’s heart and hold- 
ing it up in exultation. A little boy of seven 
summers who was present went home and told his 
mother that he “heard a man preach about a 
wicked God.” As light takes false hues from 
media through which it passes, the glorious judg- 
“ments of God may take a lurid glare from the un- 
hallowed temper of a preacher. 

There is no escaping the necessity of treating 
this subject topically, and somewhat after the 
fashion of a discourse, for there is no subject upon 
which there are more crude, not to say rude, im- 
pressions, and in which we more need to begin, and, 
in fact, to proceed at every step, with careful defini- 
tion and discrimination. I shall deal with the 
whole topic in outline, and first call your attention 
to the Judge, second to the court, third to the 
judgment, fourth to the executive, and fifth to the 
judged. 


LOVE IN WRATH. 7 


I, THE JUDGE. 


The one great term or phrase in the Word of 
God for this subject is “Righteous Judge.” What 
is a judge? A judge is one who performs two 
offices, an office of discerning and an office of de- 
ciding: discernment and decision. He is magiste- 
rial, but only as he is judicial. There are three 
departments of government—legislative, judicial, 
executive—and they may be absolutely independ- 
ent, the one of the other, in the ordinary processes 
of government. 

Jehovah is at once the God of creation, of provi- 
dence, and of redemption, and He combines in 
Himself the legislative, judicial, and executive func- 
tions. There is one passage of Scripture which 
shows this, and only one, and I would take it asa 
keynote. Isaiah xxxiii, 22: “The Lord is our 
judge ; the Lord is our lawgiver ; the Lord is our 
king.” Judicial, legislative, executive ; in God all 
functions combined in one. That is the single 
passage of Scripture which gives us a glimpse of 
this threefold character of God. 

As Lawgiver, He needs and possesses three great 
requisites: First, authority, or the right to com- 
mand ; second, wisdom, or the power to give and 
make proper law ; third, holiness, which assures us 
of the moral and spiritual element, as wisdom does 
of what may be called the intellectual element. 

As a king, God has omnipotence—all power ; 


8 LOVE IN WRATH. 


omnipresence—He is everywhere at the same time ; 
eternity—He exists through all the ages; and, 
therefore, He is fitted to execute His own laws, for 
He has absolute power to punish human guilt ; He 
is everywhere to overtake evil doers; and He has 
eternity in which to work out His awful executive 
decrees. : 

But as Judge, He has also three great requisites 
which are absolutely necessary. First of all, omnis- 
cience, that He may be able to discern even the 
motives of the evil doer; second, integrity, or exact 
justice, that He may hold evenly the scales of judg- 
ment ; and third, judicial vengeance, which secures 
perfect retribution. Comp. Hebrews x: 30, 31. 

I stop here to draw the first great discrimination. 
Vengeance is not revenge. We must make a dis- 
crimination between the two nouns—the noun 
“vengeance” and the noun “revenge,” and the 
two verbs—the verb “avenge” and the verb “re- 
venge.”” In each case the former of those words 
refers to the judicial character and action of a 
magistrate ; and the latter refers to malignant, 
malicious retaliation, inflicting injury for the sake 
of inflicting injury, and in return for injury re- 
ceived. We must be careful never to attribute, in 
that sense, revenge or revenging to God. He 
knows no windictive wrath, but He does exhibit vn- 
dicative wrath; 7. e., He vindicates Himself, and His 
judgments, and His laws, and His character ; but 
He is incapable of a vindictive act. That would 


LOVE IN WRATH. 9 


be diabolical. Let us understand, then, that wrath 
in God is not to be thought a defect, but a per- 
fection—just as mucha perfection as love; and, 
therefore, we are not to turn away from the vision of. 
God’s wrath as though we were called upon to look 
upon some blemish or blotch or blot in the divine 
character or government. There is no shadow of 
imperfection in Him; and not only so, but there is 
no perfection that is less a perfection than another, 
for this would be an anomaly and a contradiction. 

Polarity, as it is called, exhibits both attraction 
and repulsion, and at the same pole attraction and 
repulsion, and by the same law, at the same pole, 
attraction and repulsion. At the same pole the 
magnet attracts and repels. And divine benevo- 
lence has polarity. At the same pole it attracts 
and repels. By the same lawit attracts and repels. 
By the same eternal, divine necessity it attracts and 
repels. With the same divine force it attracts and 
repels. Its attraction is love, its repulsion is wrath ; 
but wrath is love turned round, and both wrath and 
Jove are the opposing poles of that one attribute— 
Benevolence. Hence it is the more to be regretted, 
and the more to be lamented, that so many minis- 
ters of Christ, not to say members of the church of 
God, have wrong conceptions of the wrath of God. 
Watts was wrong when he made the psalm to say 
of God: 


Whose anger is so slow to rise, 
So ready to abate. 


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The fact is, God’s anger never rises, and it never 
abates. It is always at flood tide, at the flood. 
mark ; and that is the mark of infinite perfection. 
It does not go up and down, like the impulsive, im- 
petuous, and capricious passions of men. It is an 
everlasting principle, not a passion at all—an ever- 
lasting principle—eternal love of righteousness, — 
eternal detestation of unrighteousness. Mark the 
word “‘detestation,” which I use discriminatingly. 
It is not simply hate. Detestation is that hate 
which compels a testimony, de-destation. God de- 
tests all evil doing, and, therefore, He must witness 
against it. There is, then, the fact of judgment; 
you cannot deny that. At the back of judgment 
is the wrath of God ; you cannot deny that. But 
at the back of the wrath is the love of God. 
Would that we might with equal confidence never 
deny that! 


II. THe Court. 


God has more than one court in which He pre- 
sides as Judge. First of all, there is the court of 
nature. We are accustomed to speak of “ natural 
laws.” I question the correctness of the termi- 
nology, for there is no such thing as natural law 
unless we understand by it simply the process of 
the divine working. And to attempt to erect a 
system of natural law without a lawgiver, as the 
atheist and the materialist do, is absurd. I would 
like to know how any law could make itself or 


LOVE IN WRATH. II 


could execute itself. The very term “natural law” 
commits the atheist to an absurdity, for he denies 
the lawgiver while he talks of law. ‘‘ Natural law,” 
as the term is used by me now, means, then, the 
process of divine working. We observe, for in- 
stance, in the physical department, that there are 
certain consequences that inevitably follow upon 
certain causes. For example, gluttony and intem- 
perance have a debauching effect upon the animal 
system ; they tend to ruin the capacity for enjoy- 
ment, the excessive indulgence of which they rep- 
resent. And lust, that most terrible of all forms of 
sensuality, brings rottenness into both the physical 
and the moral nature. We notice again in the 
moral department that the effect of greed is to elec- 
troplate the greedy man—to change him into a coin; 
_ there comes to be a metallic ring about the whole 
character of a miser, so that he drops into his coffin 
with a kind of chink. Here, in Great Britain, there 
was aman who for twenty-five years went to his 
office early in the morning and stayed till noon, and 
returned in the afternoon and stayed till night, and 
all the time was spent in counting over, and gloat- 
ing his eyes with the sight of, the golden sovereigns 
that he had accumulated. Not only did that man 
worship the golden calf, but he was himself a 
golden calf. Proverbs v. 22, tells us: “His own 
iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he 
shall be holden with the cords of his sins.” Think 
of that, brethren of the ministry ; preach on that 


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text to your congregations: “His own iniquities 
shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be | 
holden with the cords of his sins.” The wicked 
man is braiding the cords and weaving the net by 
which he makes himself the helpless victim and 
slave of evil habit. What is that but a natural, 
moral law? What is that but the automatic opera- 
tion of a process of the divine working in the moral 
nature of the man? 

2. And then there is, secondly, the court of Ais- 
tory, which is the collective experience of mankind. 
See in Genesis ix. 6: “ Whoso sheddeth man’s 
blood by man shall his blood be shed.” I question 
very much whether that is to be read as a command 
or an injunction. I think it may be nothing more 
than a prediction, for the actual fact of human 
history, as events have shown, is, that when one 
sheds man’s blood his blood is ordinarily shed by 
man. A bloodthirsty nature begets a bloodthirsty 
retribution. 

National wrongs and penalties are noticeable all 
through history. I challenge you to find in all the 
records of the human race a single instance of a 
nation that has not been sooner or later overtaken 
at some period of its career with precisely the 
wrongs that it has inflicted on other people, or with 
penalties corresponding thereto. While the lack of 
time forbids that I should expand on this subject, 
I am only throwing out lines of thought for you 
yourselves to pursue hereafter. 


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3. Now look, in the third place, at the court of 
conscience. There is something awful about it. 
There is an august assize, with judge and jury, and 
witnesses and sheriff, within the solemn temple of 
the human soul. Take Genesis xlii. 21: “And 
they said one to another, We are verily guilty con- 
cerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of 
his soul when he besought us, and we would not 
hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.” 
That is, in some respects, the most remarkable text 
in the Bible. God does not speak. No man ac- 
cuses these brethren. They are accused before the 
assize of their own conscience. And, if you ever 
doubt that there is a final retribution, consider that 
all the elements of hell are possibly suggested in 
that sentence. Memory: ‘We saw the anguish of 
his soul,” twenty years before, “ when he besought 
us and we would not hear.” Conscience: ‘Weare 
verily guilty concerning our brother.” Reason: 
“Therefore is this distress come upon us.” Put 
the human soul in the next life with a memory 
unpurged of the remembrance of evil, and a con- 
science to accuse, and a reason to justify, and you 
have all the essential elements of hell. While men 
fight the Bible doctrine of hell, they surely do not 
read the tablet written by nature itself within. 
John viii. 9: “ And they which heard it, being con- 
victed by their own conscience, went out one by 
one, beginning at the eldest even unto the last: 
and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing 


14 LOVE IN WRATH. 


in the midst.” Matthew xxvii. 3-5: “Then 
Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that | 
He was condemned, repented himself, and brought 
again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests 
and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have be- 
trayed the innocent blood. And they said, What 
is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down 
the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed and 
went and hanged himself.’’ Here is another victim 
of the court of conscience, urged on to self-destruc- 
tion by its sentence. 

I have already said solemnly that the whole court 
isin us. There is the judge, reason, sitting on the 
throne. There is the memory, summoning the 
witnesses to the box to testify to the past. There 
is the impaneled jury, ready to listen to the testi- 
mony, and give a decision or judgment. And 
there is the sheriff, remorse. A great statesman 
in America was observed on his dying bed to be 
tossing to and fro in agony. Someone drew near 
and said, “What is the matter? Can we do any- 
thing for you?” He reached out his hand, and 
took a pencil and a blank card from the table, and 
wrote on the card one word—‘“‘Remorse.’”’ In those 
that went out one by one, convicted by their con- 
science, and in Judas, in whose hand the silver 
pieces burned so that he could hold them no longer, 
you have examples of conscience giving her de- 
cision and executing her judgment. 

There is no contradiction in saying that every 


LOVE IN WRATH. 15 


man consists of “I” and “ myself.’”’ Woe be to 
the man where I and myself are in opposition. 
He knows not what retribution he is preparing for 
himself within the court of his own being. Read I 
John iii. 20, 21: “For if our heart condemn us, 
God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all 
things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then 
have we confidence toward God.” Here the argu- 
ment is, that the condemnation reached in one’s 
own heart is a prophecy of a higher court of judg- 
ment. 

There is an awful story of a Southern slave- 
owner and auctioneer, who, after inflicting number- 
less tortures on men and women, and dividing 
families, and being guilty of all manner of atroci- 
ties, one night sat before his fire in the winter 
season, and took out the letter of a dead mother 
from a box where he had kept it for many years, 
refusing to read it because he expected to find in it 
a tender remonstrance. He now took up the letter 
and determined to read it, and as he opened it a 
lock of her flaxen hair fell out and twined itself 
round his finger. He looked at it, and it was like a 
serpent, which he sought to shake off into the fire, 
but it clung and stung ; and he looked at it, and he 
talked to it, asif it were a serpent, and he besought it 
to unwind itself from his finger ; nay, he said that it 
had wound itself around his heart. He begged that 
it would depart from him, and he died in an apo- 
plectic fit, the victim of his own conscience. Re- 


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morse awakened the thunders of God, and they were 
heard even in the voice or “sound of gentle still- 
ness ’’ from that lock of hair. 

I have in my study at home a fearful picture 
drawn by Retzsch, the delineator, in illustration of 
Faust. It represents the demons trying to drag 
down the soul of Faust into perdition, and the 
angels looking down from the heavenly heights in- 
tensely interested in the issue of the contest. They 
are seeking to drive the demons off from the soul 
of Faust, and so, having no other weapons at hand, 
they seize the roses, which they pluck from the 
bowers of Paradise, and hurl them down; and 
when those roses pass into the sulphurous atmos- 
phere of the pit, every rose turns to a burning coal 
that blisters and blasts where it touches. There 
are many roses that God plucks from the bowers 
of Paradise, and that He rains down on earth for 
the sake of driving the demons away from our souls ; 
but when they strike through the atmosphere of an 
unthankful and impenitent heart, the very roses of 
Paradise are turned to burning coals. So memory 
and conscience will transform even blessings into 
curses, if they are bestowed on a rebellious soul. 

4. In the fourth place, there is the court of pudlic 
opinton. I may say that this is a kind of resultant 
of the individual decisions of the human soul. We 
speak of common sense. What do we mean? We 
mean that sentiment or judgment to which men 
come in common when they are calm and candid, 


LOVE IN WRATH. 17 


And I want to say that I believe that in nine-tenths 
of cases when you can get the common, candid, 
honest judgment of men it is correct. Let them be 
calm and cool and dispassionate ; let them be can- 
did, and not dishonest; let them be withdrawn 
from circumstances that warp judgment and influ- 
ence decision wrongly, and you get, in nine-tenths 
of cases, a safe, correct judgment. I want to throw 
out one thought which I trust may be possibly help- 
ful tous. If you are ever in doubt with regard to 
a matter of Christian duty upon which the word of 
God gives you no clear revelation, either in precept 
or in principle, and as to which, perhaps, the cus- 
toms of some other people in the church of Christ 
betray you by the example of their doing—if you 
continue doubtful about it, and want to decide it, 
I know of nothing that will enable you to decide it 
ordinarily better than what may be called the com- 
munis consensus Christianorum ; that is to say, What 
is the common judgment of the most deeply godly 
and spiritual people who live most in intimate fellow- 
ship with God? And that, in my judgment, is the 
everlasting condemnation of what are known as 
worldly amusements, that, although in the word of 
God there may be no precept that directly touches 
them—no principle which to everybody obviously 
covers them, and settles the question of their pro- 
priety—this communis consensus Christianorum is 
always against them, and has always been against 
them. There are some things upon which the devil 


18 LOVE IN WRATH. 


has put his mark, and I say, “ Let them alone.” I 
prefer the things upon which that distinctive mark 
does not rest, even though they cannot be shown to 
be inherently, essentially wrong. 

5. The fifth and last of these courts is the dar of 
God. ‘That is the ultimate court from which there 
is no appeal. Read I Corinthians iv. 3, 4: “But 
with me it is a very small thing that I should be 
judged of you, or of man’s judgment : yea, I judge 
not mine own self, for I know nothing by myself ; 
yet am I not hereby justified: but He that judgeth 
me is the Lord.” Our friend, Dr. Stalker of 
Glasgow, has finely called attention to the fact that 
in this passage are found what may be called the 
four courts of judgment. If this passage is not 
exhaustive, it is very suggestive. May I call your 
attention to these four courts? “It is a very 
small thing that I should be judged of you ’—my 
friends—“or of man's judgment’’—humanity at 
large. “ Yea, I judge not mine own self personal 
self-judgment. “But He that judgeth me is the 
Lord.” The judgment of a man’s friends, the judg- 
ment of a man’s enemies, the judgment of a man’s 
self—what are they all in comparison with the final, 
infallible, irrevocable judgment of Almighty God? 
Deuteronomy i. 17: “Ye shall not respect persons 
in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as 
the great. Ye shall not be ashamed of the face of 
man, for the judgment is God’s.” The final, irre- 
versible judgment is His, 


LOVE IN WRATH. TQ 


There is a passage which I desire to refer to, but 
time is passing so rapidly that I dare not at length ; 
but I pray you to examine it. It is probably the 
fullest passage in the entire Word of God on this 
subject of judgment. It is in Deuteronomy xxxil. 
35-43. I know of no passage in the Old Testa- 
ment or in the New that covers as much ground as 
that covers, and nothing but the lapse of time pre- 
vents my treating it in full. 

I venture a somewhat more literal rendering: 


To Me—the Vengeance and Recompense, 

At the time when their foot shall slide ; 

For the day of their calamity is at hand, 

And the things that shall come upon them hasten. 


For Jehovah will judge His people, 

And will repent Himself as to His servants, 
When He seeth that their Power is gone, 
And there is none shut up or left. 

And He will say, Where are their Gods, 
The Rock wherein they put trust, 

Which devoured the fat of their oblations, 
And drank the wine of their libations ? 
Let them rise up and help you 

And become your Protection ! 

See, now, that I—I am He, 

And no God with me. 

I kill, and I make alive; 

I wound and I heal 

And none can deliver out of my hand. 
For to heaven lift I up my hand, 

And say—I live forever ! 

If I whet my shining sword, 


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And if my hand lay hold on judgment, 

I will render vengeance to my foes, 

And recompense those that hate me. 

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, 
And my sword shall devour flesh, 

From the blood of the slain and the captives, 
From the head of the chiefs of the foe. 
Rejoice, O ye nations, with His people ! 

For the blood of His servants He will avenge, 
And to His adversaries requite vengeance, 
And for His land and His people make atonement. 


This passage I have quoted in full, for there is 
scarce one aspect of God’s judgment not here sug- 
gested. It teaches us that 


His is the vengeance that requites, 

And which is sure to come in His time. 

God mercifully judges His people, 

And retributively judges His foes. 

He leaves men in crises to their own devices, 
He reserves to Himself all final issues, 

And from His judgment there is no escape. 
When -He rises up with the Sword of Justice, 
Final and perfect Retribution falls. 


And yet all this is the occasion of devout “re- 
joicing ”’ to those who clearly apprehend the di- 
vine character.’ See verse 430.) 

Psalm ix. 7, 8, and 16: “ But the Lord shall en- . 
dure for ever: He hath prepared His throne for 
judgment. And He shall judge the world in right- 
eousness, He shall minister judgment to the people 
in uprightness, .. The Lord is known by the 


LOVE IN WRATH. 21 


judgment which He executeth: the wicked is 
snared in the work of his own hands.” That last 
verse has regard to what we call “ poetic retribu- 
tion.” This is one of those things which make so 
unmistakable the fact that God isthe judge. “ The - 
Lord God of recompenses shall surely requite,” 
says Jeremiah in the 51st chapter and 56th verse. 
“The wicked is snared in the work of his own 
hands,” as Haman was hung on the gallows which 
he had prepared for Mordecai, and as the thumbs 
and great toes of Adoni-bezek were cut off, just as 
he had before done with the three score and ten 
kings. 


III, THe JUDGMENT. 


I pass on now to speak in the third place of the 
judicial sentence—the magisterial act. This word 
“judgment” is a very prominent word. I think that 
one of the Hebrew words so translated occurs over 
three hundred times in the Old Testament. In 
God’s case the judgment is never tentative. It isa 
final fiat. As He said of Light, “let it be,” and “it 
was,” so in judgment He says, “let it be so,” and it 
is SO. 

Now, there are two sorts of judgment—the Zem- 
poral and the eternal ; and we should make a care- 
ful discrimination between the temporal and the 
eternal judgments. For instance, in Isaiah xxvi. 9, 
we read: ‘When Thy judgments are in the earth 
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteous- 


22 LOVE IN WRATH. 


ness.” This cannot refer to eternal judgment, be- 
cause the object of these is that the inhabitants of 
the world shall learn righteousness ; and the judg- 
ments are judgments that are “in the earth,” dis- 
tinctively in this present sphere. 

And, by the way, what magnificent imagery the 
Word of God contains on this subject, especially as 
to the Person of the Judge Himself. Heaven is 
His throne; the earth is His footstool. He is 
seated in heaven, with His feet reaching to the 
earth ; His pavilion is the heavens ; sunrise and 
sunset, the lifting of the curtains and the gleamings 
through of the glory ; light, His robe; clouds and 
darkness, His canopy and covering; His chariots, 
the clouds ; the wings of the wind, the pinions on 
which He flies ; His voice, thunder ; the flash of 
His eye, lightning. His glance makes the earth to 
quake, and His touch makes the hills to smoke. 
He takes up the isles in His palm asa very little 
thing, and the mountains are the small dust of the 
balance which He holds, and all the nations of the 
earth are insignificant nothings, What a wonderful 
representation ! 

Now the temporal plagues or temporal judgments 
of God are not so much retributive as disciplinary 
and educative. They are punitive, but they are 
“More corrective than punitive, if men will only re- 
ceive them as corrective. God does not so much 
by them design retribution as He does such 
punitive measures as will also be corrective, 


LOVE IN WRATH. 23 


making the inhabitants of the earth learn right- 
eousness. 

Let us recognize, therefore, as God’s scourges, 
the devastations which are abroad in the earth. 
Diseases are his weapons. Exodus xv, 26. Asiatic 
cholera, typhus fever, small pox, etc., what are they 
but God's judgments on the “sin of dirt”! And 
so the slums of great cities breed pestilence. God 
has His judgments on moral dirt, impurity, licen- 
tiousness, strong drink, blasphemy. One godless 
infidel village in the great West of America, which 
was founded upon an oath to exclude all Christian 
churches and institutions, and where the Lord’s 
supper was blasphemously caricatured, was thrice 
swept with the besom of destruction. It was said 
when an awful flood nearly destroyed another of 
our Cities, that the greatest destruction lay right im 
the track of the worst drink saloons and brothels ! 
Lincoln said in course of the American War that 
God might choose to exact one freeman’s life for 
every life sacrificed in slavery. And so it seemed, 
for that war cost 500,000 lives, 300,000 maimed, 
300,000 widows, and 3,000,000,000 dollars of 
treasure. 

1. As to these temporal and corrective judg- 
ments, they may be avoided, therefore, so far as 
sanitary laws—drainage, ventilation, cleanliness— 
are observed ; so far as moral laws are kept, for 
nothing is settled till settled rightly ; and so far as 
social laws are obeyed, and the mutual dependence 


24 LOVE IN WRATH. 


of all classes on each other is recognized and re- 
garded, by promoting measures which elevate the 
condition of the lowest and poorest. It is said that 
Robert Peel’s daughter died from the infection con- 
veyed in her riding habit from the attic where the 
poor sempstress who embroidered it had laid it over 
her sick husband as he shivered in the agonies of a 
fatal fever. How many ways God has of showing 
us that society is bound in indissoluble ties; and 
that it avenges the neglect of the weakest and most 
degraded of its members ! 

Now let us carefully note again the absolute 
perfection of the judgment of God. Nevera blem- 
ish about it. In the first place it is true and right- 
cous and holy. See Isaiah xxviii. 17 : “ Judgment 
also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the 
plummet ; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge 
of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding 
place.” Think how beautiful that figure is of lay- 
ing judgment to the line, and righteousness to the 
plummet. When you lay a corner stone, can it be 
laid too absolutely level and plumb? All the sym- 
metry of the building depends upon the angles of 
the corner stone. And when God lays the corner 
stone of judgment, it is true to the line and the 
plummet. It is perfect in equity. His rewards 
and His retributions are absolutely without a blot. 
God is perfect, and therefore His standard is per- 
fect, and therefore His restitution and retribution 
and recompense must be perfect. Some people 


LOVE IN WRATH. 25 


tremble before the thought of the Judgment Day, 
and we all ought to do so, but we should never 
lose sight of the fact that the judgment of God isan 
occasion also of unspeakable joy. It is the v¢ghiing 
of the wrongs of the ages. ‘There is a manifest want 
of balance in this life. The scales of God do not 
hang evenly. Evil does not get its full recompense, 
and righteousness does not get its full reward ; and 
if we could not lift the curtain, or if it were not 
lifted in the Word of God so that we get a glimpse 
of the future, we should be in despair, like the 
author of the seventy-third psalm. But, blessed 
be God, the wrongs of the ages are going to be 
righted ; and what the saints do not get here of 
recompense they shall get there; and what the 
wicked do not get of retribution here, they shall 
get there, for God is a perfect God in Judgment. 

2. I notice in the second place under this head 
that there is mercy in justice. We talk of both 
“the goodness and the severity of God”; but we 
forget that there is goodness in severity, and there 
is severity in goodness. You remember about the 
wars conducted by Prince Eugene and the Duke 
of Marlborough. Have ‘you ever noticed that at 
one time they had a contest as to the punishment 
of men that were guilty of outrages in the way of 
marauding ? and Prince Eugene said, “I always 
hang every such offender.” On one particular oc- 
casion there was brought up a soldier who had 
been guilty of marauding, and whose execution 


26 LOVE IN WRATH. 


was demanded by Prince Eugene, but for whom 
the Duke interceded, saying, “‘if you hang men for 


such offenses, you will hang half the army!” The 


Prince said, “ Now, Duke, safety requires such law- 
lessness to be punished. You have not been ac- 
customed to execute these men, and I have been. 
Now search the records, and if it is not found that 
you have executed far more men than I have, I will 
let this man go free.” It was found, on looking at 
the records, that at least five times as many men 
had been executed by the more lenient general 
as by the more severe one. Marlborough’s mis- 
taken mercy had set a premium on crime and so 
multiplied offenders. Chief Justice Hale said, 
“Whenever as a judge I feel myself swayed to 
mercy toward a prisoner, let me remember that 
there also is a mercy due to my country.” And I 
want to say solemnly, not knowing that I shall ever 
speak in England again, that I believe there is 
nothing doing more mischief in the world and in 
the Church of Christ to-day than unregenerate no- 
tions of benevolence, Such notions picture God as 
all love and all mercy, with no wrath and no judg- 
ment; and lead people in their own families to 
say, aS a woman said to me, “I love my children 
too well to punish them.” No wonder if such 
children grow up mischief-makers ! 

3. I want to repeat what I have already intimated, 
that there is a magnificent and awful grandeur in 
holy jealousy and fury. Have you ever traveled in 


Oe an tng PRET 


LOVE IN WRATH. 27 


the Alps? You will come sometimes upon a quiet 
and beautiful valley nestling down among the hills, 
and full of purling brooks, and birds that sing, 
and plants that bloom ; and a few steps farther on, 
it may be, you turn abruptly round a curve, and a 
great mountain seems to overhang you with its 
awful shadow, and threatens absolutely to hurl its 
mass over upon you. Now you cannot have an 
elevation without acorresponding depression. You 
cannot have a sunny valley without a frowning 
mountain. And there are changes in the scenery 
when you are studying the divine nature. There 
is the lowly valley, where the flowers of redemption 
spring and the waters of salvation roll in curling 
eddies ; but there is the awful great White Throne, 
glorious indeed, but the more terrible in its shadow, 
because of its intense light. Look at an engine on 
the track. How shall the locomotive guide the 
train of cars to their destination unless it moves 
within the limits of its steel rails with inflexible and 
inviolable uniformity? But suppose a man comes 
and throws himself across the track. The same 
mechanical law which enables that engine to be a 
means of transportation, travel, locomotion, and 
general beneficence to the community, makes it 
sure to be an engine of destructive wrath to the 
man that dares to prostrate himself across its path. 
God moves on a track; it is the track of perfect 
holiness. He moves on a track, not for the sake 
of avenging wrong, but for the benefit and blessing 


28 LOVE IN WRATH. 


of His universe; and if the sinner puts himself 
across the track, the same law precisely which com- 
pels God, for the sake of His universe, to move on 
those lines of justice and love will make Him the 
avenger of unrepented sin. For God to leave that 
track would be for Him to transgress the law of 
right, and the universe would come to an end 
before He would do that. If you ever think that 
there 1s an inconsistency between wrath and love, 
I would have you remember that strange expres- 
sion in the Book of the Apocalypse, ‘‘ The wrath of 
the Lamb.” What is the lamb? Gentlest of all 
four-footed beasts, the very type of gentleness, and 
love, and amiability, and unresisting submission ; 
and yet it is the wrath of the Lamb which is most 
fearful of all, and because it is the wrath of the 
Lamb. 7 

4. And then notice again the reason for delay in 
execution. “The Lord is not slack concerning 
His promise, as some men count slackness, but 
long-suffering.” And yet, “ Because sentence 
against an evil work is not executed speedily, the 
heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do 
evil” (II Peter iii. 9; Eccles. vili. 11). Thus we 
are taught that the very mercy which counsels long- 
suffering only hardens men in evil-doing. 

5. Notice, however, the ultimate certainty of 
divine judgment. Now what are sanctions? Let 
us stop again to define. Suppose you build an 
arch. You must have two opposing pillars, or sup- 


LOVE IN WRATH. 29 


ports, to sustain that arch, Take away either pil- 
lar, and down comes your arch, and all that depends 
upon it. God's government is a splendid arch 
which spans eternity, and underneath the arch are 
these two great pillars—the reward of righteousness 
on the one hand, and the retribution of evil on the 
other. To take away that retribution of evil is as 
surely to demolish the arch, and all that rests upon 
it, as to take away the award of righteousness. The 
ultimate certainty is as absolute as that God is, 
that His government shall be sustained, for the 
universe hangs on it, and therefore the sanctions 
that sustain His government shall be maintained, 
for everything else depends on those sanctions. 
So we come to the unavoidableness of the judgment. 

How shall we escape the just judgment of God? 
(Romans ii. 3.) Thank God, no transgressor can 
escape, for He would cease to be the perfect God 
He is if one such should escape. 


lV. THE EXECUTIVE. 


And now I come to say a few words about the 
fourth head of this topical treatment. This em- 
braces the instruments and the agents. And here 
I make another discrimination. We should not use 
the word “instrument” and the word “agent” in- 
discriminately. Agent is derived from ago—agere, 
and implies a personal element, which an instru- 
ment does not imply. An instrument may be a 
blind force, but a blind force can never be an 


3° LOVE IN WRATH. 


agent. An agent must be a person. I think that 
we ought to establish and keep close to that discrim- 
ination. ; 

It is a wonderful thing that this great Judge of 
ours uses as His executive even the blind forces of 
nature. This is most remarkable. For instance, 
in the representations of the Word of God, all na- 
ture is grandly set forth as yielding absolute obe- 
dience to Almighty God. Even these inanimate 
forces do so. The winds are His messengers, and 
the flames of fire His ministers. Look at the ten 
plagues of Egypt. In Exodus vii-xii, there is an 
early illustration as well as a declaration of the fact 
that, behind all human calamity, is the hand of 
God, and that there is a providential control even 
over the inanimate powers of the natural universe. 
Light and darkness, hail and lightnings and floods, 
are used as the instruments of those plagues. All 
animate nature—fish and frogs, and flies and lice, 
and locusts and cattle—are all subordinate to the 
will and word of God. The subtle, mysterious in- 
fluences of nature, of which we do not know so 
much, God also used to produce murrain and 
boils, and blains and disease and death in various 
forms. Now note—and do not let us shrink from 
it—the express declaration in Isaiah liv. 16, “Z 
have created the waster to destroy.” I pray you 
notice that. 

We had a tremendous exhibition of this truth in 
the history of the grasshopper scourge in Minnesota. 


LOVE IN WRATH. 3t 


In 1866, the grasshopper was still destroying 
these great wheatfields of the West, some of which 
consisted of thousands of acres without even a single 
fence. They are the granaries of the whole world. 
The Christian governor of Minnesota called a day 
of prayer to Almighty God against the grasshopper 
scourge; and you ought to have seen the attacks 
made upon that Christian governor, not only by 
infidel newspapers and the daily organs of the 
press, but even by some Christian newspapers so- 
called! The day of prayer came, and a multi- 
tude came out and filled the places of supplication, 
and besought God to remove the scourge. The 
spring came on, and the wheat began to appear in 
the fields, and the grasshoppers appeared alongside 
of it; and then there went out a shout of derision 
from those infidels and blasphemers. But mark! 
At the same time there developed a parasite, pre- 
viously unknown, that stung the grasshopper, and, 
in the first place, prevented that grasshopper from 
doing any harm to the crop of wheat, and, in the 
second place, from laying of eggs for reproduction, 
and there have never been grasshoppers in Minne- 
sota since! I am persuaded we are having some 
miracles wrought in these days, as well as in the 
days of Egypt; and men would observe them, if 
they were not so blind as not to see the wonderful 
works of Almighty God. Hear what God says: “I 
will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out 
the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from be- 


32 LOVE IN WRATH. 


fore thee”? (Exodus xxiii. 28). Then in Numbers 
xxl. 6, we read, “The Lord sent fiery serpents 
among the people.” Then, in Jonah i. 17, “ The 
Lord prepared a great fish.” Again in chapter iv. 
6, “God prepared a gourd”; verse 7, “God pre- 
pared a worm’’; verse 8, “God prepared a vehe- 
ment east wind.” All departments of nature are 
covered. The gourd represents the vegetable; the 
worm and the fish, the animal ; and the east wind 
the blind, inanimate forces. See, in Psalm cv. 16, 
“He called for a famine,” as though the famine 
came like a servant summoned by his master and 
said, /Here amiJ.”- Read Joel:4..3;.4 3. Dell.ye 
your children of it, and let your children tell their 
children, and their children another generation. 
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the 
locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left 
hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the 
cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.” 
And then chapter ii. 25: “And I will restore to 
you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker- 
worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, 
My great army which I sent among you.” I think 
that is one of the most startling statements on the 
subject in the whole Word of God. Just think of 
it! Think of God calling these H7s great army, in 
four detachments—the locust, the cankerworm, the 
caterpillar, and the palmerworm. What an army, 
and what detachments! Go tothe East to-day, and 
see a cloud of locusts rising from the horizon, and 


LOVE IN WRATH. 3 


spreading itself over the entire sky till not a frag- 
ment of the blue heavens is visible, and settling 
down over leagues of territory, inches and inches 
deep, and leaving behind not one green thing when 
they have departed! I tell you that all history is , 
embraced in the plan of God. Unquestionably 
there is a dark side to history, and the attempted 
solution that accounts for it by chance, or by dual 
powers like the Persian Ahriman and Ormudz, the 
powers of good and evil warring against each other, 
will not avail for an explanation. We must have 
the Scriptural solution, for that is the only satisfac- 
tory one—that there is a providence even over 
things evil. Devastation is the weapon of God. 
Diseases are sent by Him, The influenza bacillus 
is the smallest microbe ever known, and yet look at 
the damage and disaster which have followed it. It 
is God’s army executing His judgment. About 
three times a century there comes over even civil- 
ized and Christian nations some form of evil that 
has not been known to science, and in the presence 
of which even medical men are utterly at a loss. 
It is God’s sign that He has not yet surrendered 
the providential control of the world. 

While speaking of God’s use of the blind forces, 
let me especially refer to the whirlwind. What isa 
whirlwind ? It is the combination of the hurricane 
and the cyclone. There are thirty cases in which 
the whirlwind is specially referred to in the Old 
Testament. I will call attention to some of them, 


34 LOVE IN WRATH. 


though I have not time to treat them individually : 
Isaiah Ixvi. 15; Jeremiah iv. 13; Jeremiah, xxiii. 
19; Jeremiah xxv. 32; Nahum i. 3. I especially 
want you to notice that the idea of the whirlwind 
is the idea of resistless violence and fury; and 
yet, what is the whirlwind but another form of the 
breath or wind that is the symbol of the Spirit ? 
And the conception of wheels comes in here, because 
of the rapid, cylonic revolutions of the whirlwind; 
and that gives us the sublime and awful figure of 
the whirlwind as God’s Chariot moving with ter- 
rific fury ; and the very cyclones are the wheels of 
God's progress. The cloud, which is another sym- 
bol of His judgment, represents mystery and power, 
and terror, too, because the cloud is the abode of 
the lightning ; and the fire suggests glory, and the 
consuming, devouring, and refining influence of 
flame that God uses. 

2. I have already referred to the fact that, in 
the second place, God’s executive includes living 
animals from the lowliest insect up to the largest 
of the animal creation. 

3. Then in the third place, God’s executive is 
man—man individually, and man_ collectively. 
Notice that phrase about Babylon, the hammer of 
the whole ‘earth, Jerem. |. 23. It does not imply 
that God approves of a nation because He uses 
that nation for a scourge. He will take Babylon 
as a hammer, and break other nations into pieces ; 
and, because Babylon is proud and rebellious and 


LOVE IN WRATH. 35 


arrogant, He will break the hammer itself on His © 
anvil of judgment, when He has done breaking na- 
tions with it. 

4. Then, in the fourth place, God uses His angels 
as His executive; and I want to add, though per- 
haps some of you will not agree with me, that I be- 
lieve that they are the active agents of God to-day. 
Notice how frequently that phrase, “The angel of 
the Lord,’’ is used in the Word of God—I believe 
eighty-five times. It is a terrible revelation of how 
the obedient angelic host may execute the will of 
God. If one angel in one night could slay 185,000 
Assyrians, what do you think twelve legions of 
angels could have done if Christ had chosen to 
summon them to His side, when in the garden He 
confronted His approaching agonies of crucifixion ? 


V. THE JUDGED. 


I come to say a word in conclusion about the 
JUDGED. 

First, fallen angels and sinners. My _ hearers, 
are any of youunsaved? I want you to notice one 
awful fact, which God’s Word has solemnly brought 
to your attention—that, while the angels instantly 
fell, and fell without a Redeemer and without an 
offer of salvation, into the nethermost world, you 
have had put before you the promise of salvation 
in Christ upon the simple condition. of faith ; but if 
you refuse Christ, you sink into the same condem- 


36 LOVE IN WRATH. 


nation with demons and devils (Matt. xxv. 41). 
Most awful ! 

There is such a thing as the judgment of disci- 
ples. I stop to call attention to one suggestion, 
which I have never heard referred to except by my- 
self, but it seems to me that there is a thought 
worthy of utterance. In I Corinthians xi. 31, 32 
we read, “For if we would judge ourselves, we 
should not be judged. But when we are judged 
we are chastened of the Lord that we should not 
be condemned with the world.” There is a hint 
here of great value to me—that it is a possible 
thing for you and me, as disciples, to escape cer- 
tain chastenings or judgments of God if we sitin 
judgment on ourselves, and take the occasions of 
those judgments away. This is just as it is in the 
family. How gladly would we forego a chastise- 
ment that corrects a child’s faults, if the conscience 
of the child would itself correct the faults. May 
there not be many, many sufferings that it is neces- 
sary that God should send upon us because of the 
rebellious self-will which remains in us, and of our 
hesitancy in laying ourselves and all we have at the 
feet of our dear Master? In many cases, if we 
judged ourselves, it would not be necessary for God 
to judge us. Judgment, in this passage, as applied 
to disciples, obviously means Fatherly chastening, 
and is, therefore, expressly distinguished from con- 
demnation (see verse 32). 


LOVE IN WRATH. 37 


But mark this distinction. The Judgment of 
the great day is a judgment into which—I as truly 
believe as I believe in Jesus Christ—the believer 
will never enter. Many may disagree with me, but 
I hold it as one of the fundamental articles of my 
creed, that if one has faith in Jesus Christ unto sal- 
vation he shall never enter into the judgment of the 
great day. There is a difference between the 
thronos and the dema. There is a difference be- 
tween the great White Throne and the judgment 
seat of Christ. Before the judgment seat of Christ 
we come to have our places assigned us in the king- 
dom, and to receive the awards and rewards for 
labor done for Christ. Now mark, eternal life is 
never once represented as our reward. It is the 
gift of God, and a gift is not a reward. A gift is 
not wages. Wages implies work done. But, having 
been saved by the gift of God, which is eternal 
life, we gather fruit unto life eternal if we enter into 
the work-field of God, and there earn wages by 
toiling for our Master (comp. John iv. 10, 36); 
and when we come before the judgment seat of 
Christ it 1s to determine what we have done with tal- 
ents, what we have done with our possessions, our 
faculties, our opportunities; how we have discharged 
our obligations ; how far our characters and lives 
have magnified Christ; whether wood, hay, and 
stubble have been built into the structure, or gold 
and silver and precious stones. Hence observe 


38 LOVE IN WRATH. 


that the ground of security of a disciple lies here 
—that judgment has been pronounced on his sin 
and executed in Jesus Christ. If one died in behalf 
of all, then all died (II Cor. v.14). Note the 
sin-offering seems meant in the former part, and 
the burnt-offering is referred to in the latter part 
of that passage: “ We thus judge that if one died 
for all then all died: and that He died for all, that 
they which live should not henceforth live unto 
themselves, but unto Him which died for them and 
rose again.” In the first part of the passage noth- 
ing is hinted about life and resurrection, because 
the words “died,” “dead,” apply to the trespass 
and sin-offering. The word “burn,” used as to 
them in Leviticus, means to turn toashes. But the 
word applied in Leviticus to the other offering, the 
burnt-offering, refers to ascending in flame, because 
life and resurrection are there symbolized. Judg- 
ment was pronounced and executed on Christ on 
our behalf, and it would not be fair to judge us 
when we have already been judged. God is too 
exact in His justice for that, and so he that believes 
in Christ and who by believing in Christ becomes 
identified with Christ, has been judged, and his 
judgment has been executed; and there can be no 
such thing as his coming before the great White 
Throne for judgment. Hence the absolute safety 
of a disciple. Comp. John iil. 36; v. 24. 

The whirlwind, the symbol of God’s fury, has a 


LOVE IN WRATH. 39 


center where you are perfectly safe. If you could” 
teach that center, there would be no more motion 
than there is in the axis round which a wheel re- 
volves. The whirlwind may move with tremendous 
fury about you, but there is “the sound of gentle 
stillness” (I Kings xix. 12 Revised Version), in that 
center. Elijah was carried up in the center of a 
whirlwind. He went up in a chariot of fire, the 
wheels of which were a whirlwind. I believe that 
God loves that soft murmur of grace. It is not 
God’s will to be compelled to judge us; He would 
be glad to have had all the judgments due to us 
executed finally in Jesus Christ. And as we be- 
gan by saying “ The Lord is our Judge ; the Lord 
is our Lawgiver ; the Lord is our King,” I pray 
you to notice that in that verse, which is the only 
verse that presents Him in the threefold aspect of 
the legislative, the judicial, and the executive, there 
is at the end the marvelous expression, “ He well 
save us’? What hope has the sinner when this in- 
finite King combines in Himself all these functions 
—when omnipotence, and omnipresence, and omnis- 
cience, and eternity, and exact justice, and judicial 
vengeance, and perfect holiness, and infinite spirit- 
uality, and the wrath of love are arrayed against 
him? He hides himself in Christ ; he takes refuge 
in the Rock of Ages; he gets into the center of the 
cyclone ; and then the Lawgiver does not demand 
of him a perfect obedience, but He takes the per- 


40 LOVE IN WRATH. 


fect obedience of His Son in its place; and the 
Judge no longer condemns him, for He says, 
“Your judgment has been pronounced and ex- 
ecuted ”; and so Judge, Lawgiver, and King unite 
to assure the salvation of a believer! This very 
God himself comes and saves us. 


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